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There is a rumor Tantara is set for release on December 11th. It would be the last Netflix original K-drama for 2026, the striking ending of this year or something.

I think the character selling holograms is played Jo Jung Suk, we'll see if he is North Korean or not.

> Paper Man tells the story of Cha Myung Jo, who works for a company that produces imitation character stickers and lives in the shadow of his judge wife. After a chance turn of events, he creates a counterfeit banknote so flawless that it cannot be distinguished from the real thing, leading him into an unexpected and dangerous world.

Anyway, like I wrote, Park Han Soo's character can have an obscure job name, but it's his task to fight criminals, his literal job description as a deputy director of the anti-counterfeiting division. I doubt he is going to be just an office/lab rat doing tests, because he is the second actor in the top billing for this drama. His character is the main adversary of our antihero protagonist. So I am sure there will be some action for PHS character.

The following quote is from the announcent on MDL news.

> Park Hae Soo will play Oh Seung Eop, the First Deputy Director of the Anti-Counterfeiting Division at the Korea Mint who stands in Myung Jo's way.

It looks like another kind of investigator/law enforcement officer instead of a researcher/scientist for me. Like, he is literally a top leader of the anti-counterfeiting unit ("division").

I don't have anything against Jo Jung Suk. but If they had replaced him with Lee Hee-joon, this Chimera reunion would have been even funnier.

By the way, Park Hae Soo seems to play another law enforcement officer, whatever his characters' specific actual position/job description/organization are. It's like seventh time for him.

Chimera reunion. Cool.

I write sorry, because it's formal politeness. And I see people in commentaries here can't live with any mild critic about this drama, that's why I decided to be even more polite in my commentary. Everyone must only say how amazing it is, how it's a masterpiece and so on. You don't even have to write it's bad to get some hate here. I didn't write it's bad, I wrote there were K-dramas doing certain things better than this one, but it's enjoyable and I don't regret watching it, But if your praise isn't big enough, you are a clown or whatever.

That's just toxic. And that's bullying which is exactly what show is against for. How ironic is to get some hate and be bullied for polite pointing what's good and what's not so goood in in the show about bullying. It's like so called fans don't understand what's this drama is about.

Well, I wrote my opionion. I wrote it in a polite reserved manner, I didn't offend anyone personally (and you tried to make this personal about me), I didn't spam, I didn't break any rules. So I will keep my commentaries about this drama here and I will comment whatever and whenever I want here. Deal with it.

> senior actor Namkoong Min

Really? I am pretty sure something was lost in translation. I mean Namkoong Min is in his 40s, he is hardly senior like, for example, Baek Yoon Shik or even Choi Min Sik.

I wouldn't say this show is as great as people write here. It's a feel good show about bullying and retribution, and not from some vigilante like in most of such K-dramas, but from the government itself using vigilante methods. It shows issues of the current school education (relevant not just for South Korea, by the way, but for many countries) from different angles with students, teachers and parents being perpetrators in different cases.

But it becomes repetitive at some moment, and like I wrote after episode 1 yesterday, the drama has subtlety of the pile of bricks falling on your head. Action scenes aren't great either, there are too many cuts and close-ups, it's generally pretty hard to understand what exactly happens during the fight. There are K-dramas with better action/fight choreography, sorry.

It's still enjoyable, because sometimes you just want certain people to get hurt for everything they have done. I have finished 6 episodes, it's a solid 7/10 in general (and that's my rating for it here). It's an enjoyable drama I am going to finish, I don't regret watching this, however I am not going to hope for a second season unless something really unexpected and extraordinary happens in the rest episodes.

I saw two trailers on YouTube about four and two weeks ago. I don't watch Korean variety shows, talk shows, whatever, maybe they did some promotion on linear TV in South Korea.

No, there is no much gore. But yes, there are a lot of bullying scenes with physical violence, just not much blood or body damage. I would say maybe on The Glory level or even milder.

I wouldn't say this show is as great as people write here. It's a feel good show about bullying and retribution, and not from some vigilante like in most of such K-dramas, but from the government itself using vigilante methods. It shows issues of the current school education (relevant not just for South Korea, by the way, but for many countries) from different angles with students, teachers and parents being perpetrators in different cases.

But it becomes repetitive at some moment, and like I wrote after episode 1 yesterday, the drama has subtlety of the pile of bricks falling on your head. Action scenes aren't great either, there are too many cuts and close-ups, it's generally pretty hard to understand what exactly happens during the fight. There are K-dramas with better action/fight choreography, sorry. But it's still enjoyable, because sometimes you just want certain people to get hurt for everything they have done.

On one hand, the drama is incredibly satisfying, on other hand, it is as nuanced and subtle as a pile of bricks falling on your head. I am still watching it.

Yes, sure. This show is a bit dfiierent thogh, because it's about a government bureau. albeit fictional, about social institutional changes. Even the drama itself could play its own role as some preparations for the real life decisions, just, you know, throwing the show to probe the public opinion, move some psychological borders of appropriate and inappropriate. I mean it's unlikely, but possible in theory.

No, the drama is mostly a military veteran beating pesky teenagers here, there and everywhere. Just joking. But not that much.

Yes, it's Netflix's own show, they release all episodes of their own shows at the same time.

Sometimes n American shows 30yo people play high school students. Yes, it has been a joke for decades,

Just add three weeks from Netflix K-drama releases: Teach You a Lesson -- June 5th, The Notes from the Last Row -- June 26th. Then every three weeks, like I wrote earlier: July 17th, August 7th and 28th, September 18th, October 9th and 30th, November 20th, December 11th,

But that's the point. The world is changing. It's cliche, of course. But right now it's true. New technologiy, aka drones, LLMs and even anthropomorphic robots are coming. Well, actually it has come, it's here. I liked how season 1 used drones and electronic warfare systems. With robots it's just casual reality of next 3-5 years at most.

I don't know, Neither Namkoong Min looks gravely at the second picture, nor he is cold and hardened at third one. He seems to be serious and attentive (maybe a bit wary too) and kinda sad/tired/exhausted respectively.

And I answered we as viewers don't know what show will be released in July, or August, or September specifically, just in Q3 in general. There aren't information yet.

We know dramas Netflix is going to release in Q3, but we as viewers don't know what title will be release on what day yet, including August.